sepulcher

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A burial vault.

n. A receptacle for sacred relics, especially in an altar.

transitive v. To place into a sepulcher; inter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A burial chamber.

v. To bury the dead.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.

transitive v. To bury; to inter; to entomb.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To bury; inter; entomb.

n. A tomb; a cave, building, etc., for interment; a burial-vault.

n. In eccles. arch., a recess in some early churches, in which were placed on Good Friday, with appropriate ceremonies, the cross, the reserved sacrament, and the sacramental plate, and from which they were taken at high mass on Easter, to typify the burial and resurrection of Christ.

Examples

Often this is in a little detached garden, containing a small stone building (where there is no rock), resembling a house, which is called the sepulcher of the family -- it has neither door nor window.

In the context of the original inscription with nesna in it (TLE 372: Θestia Velθurnas nesna), if we are to pursue her avenue of reasoning, it should then be better translated as "sepulcher" (hence "Thestia Velthurna's sepulcher") given its archaeological context.